Adjective : an instantaneous response. ,the instantaneous position of the rocket.    From Dictionary.com. 

With almost an instantaneousness, the heavens darkened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mark of the Beast] Reference

But the instantaneousness of it is brilliant-no more hunting up a translation page.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Difference Goes Multilingual] Reference

I made a mighty movement to escape; was held more firmly — and then close to the face of Larry, flashing out with that terrifying instantaneousness even as had his, was the head of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Pool] Reference

Her cleverly appraising eye took in, with the instantaneousness of photography, every detail of Gay's get-up, and her brain acknowledged that she had seldom seen a better one either in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

They have abandoned much of what makes magazines great by trying to compete with the instantaneousness of the Internet and by reflecting the culture back at itself rather then creating it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian Alexander: An Elegy for Magazines] Reference

Heidegger's description of growing possibilities for simultaneity and instantaneousness in human experience ultimately proved no less apprehensive than the views of many of his predecessors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Globalization] Reference

When Mr. Webster so happily compared the instantaneousness and perfection of his financial system to "the fabled birth of Minerva," he did but allude to what is to be remarked of all Hamilton's works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

Thomas: The whole transformation into electronic journalism in terms of instantaneousness and brevity, and too little faith in reporting on the scene, makes me fear the corporate heads have reduced the possibility of seeking the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Thank You, Mr. President'] Reference

And, as the following essays demonstrate, Romanticism's version of the insistence of the aesthetic is distinguished by what is either an antinomy or an aporia between the insistence of the aesthetic and the instantaneousness of judgment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence] Reference

The instantaneousness of God's answer is very beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference

It is important to distinguish simultaneity from instantaneousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference

Thus a great deal of debate is had over the supposed instantaneousness of the change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons for the New Life.] Reference

In persons of character, we do not remark manners, because of their instantaneousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conduct of Life (1860)] Reference

And then it had vanished, become invisible and inaudible with a kind of instantaneousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Research Magnificent] Reference

On the contrary, people love the simplicity and the instantaneousness of both IM and SMS / MMS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference

There are two concepts which I want to distinguish, and one I call simultaneity and the other instantaneousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference

I know not which is the more startling—the début of the unfortunate clergyman, or the instantaneousness of his end.    From Wordnik.com.  [“A Clergyman”] Reference

The fundamental distinction to remember is that immediacy for sense-awareness is not the same as instantaneousness for nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference

Pitt now changed his front with an instantaneousness and absoluteness which gave the highest proof of his capacity as a leader of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain] Reference

Oh! dear friends, the instantaneousness of Christ's answer, and the certainty of it, are as true for each of us as they were for this woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV] Reference

He was very confused, and, as I think, inconsistent in his remarks; and his arguing about the instantaneousness of sanctification seemed weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story] Reference

He took off his spectacles, snuggled down into his rosy nest, and fell asleep with the instantaneousness of one whose mind is suddenly relieved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher and Columbus] Reference

I enjoy its informality and instantaneousness-the way it provides me an opportunity to spout off publicly about this or that outrage of the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

Palace, her momentary nervousness as she entered the Throne-room, the instantaneousness with which that all vanished when she came face to face with her Sovereign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Mapp] Reference

As for Mr. Weir, surely nothing could be more unlike the instantaneousness of true impressionism than his long-brooded-over, subtle-toned, infinitely sensitive art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference

The piano, for instance, as experts understand it, and even as the moderately-trained may play it, claims all the immediate action, the instantaneousness, most unnatural to childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

But it's harder to message these days because of the way the world has changed - the media world and the public world, where negativity and instantaneousness seems to have higher ground than it used to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home/News] Reference

Humans measure threats by intentionality, immorality, imminence, and instantaneousness, he said, explaining that global warming-a slow-moving, amoral, unintentional event-possesses none of these traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Crimson | All Articles] Reference

Of course, the appalling instantaneousness of it in the present case, goes far to explain and excuse your emotion, but now at least, after so many hours have elapsed, it is surely time for reason to resume her sway!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salted with Fire] Reference

And almost instantaneously, because I think there's two traits of a successful firm in this era: One is instantaneousness - how quickly can you turn the information, contextualize it, put it for or against your client or your opponent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flack] Reference

What is understood by instantaneousness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference

Can you split instantaneousness into fragments?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door Through Space] Reference

121 instantaneousness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ministry of the Spirit] Reference